I am attempting to locate my g-g grandparents, Conterio and Vallino by searching and summarizing birth records in Locana, near Torino for 1850-1865. I have run into a numbers of issues. Please help.

1. Would "Giovanni Battista" (as the child on an atto) be the same person years later as "Battista" (the father on an atto)? That is, did men use both names, or Gio, or Battista more commonly? This is an extremely common name in this family/town/era.

2. How common were hyphenated last names? I have seem several of them, such as Conterio-Bodiet or Vallino-Navetta. Is this a second name or something else?

3. In the Padrino entry especially, I am seeing entries such as "=bot" or "=prot". What does this mean?

4. In an Atto, if the chils's name is listed as "N.N.", does this mean no name? I have seen this a couple times and I believe there were no godparents either time as well.

Not sure of the answers to 1 & 2, but believe that the answer to 3 is "part of the word before." I see "word=" at the end of a line and the rest of the word is on the line below. so if you see "=word" it means part of the word before (?).

Someone with more experience may have another answer. The people on this site are very helpful & knowledgeable. I just like to contribute my two cents worth now & then!

Anyway, when the site is working properly again, I'm sure you'll get more responses.

saestes wrote:I am attempting to locate my g-g grandparents, Conterio and Vallino by searching and summarizing birth records in Locana, near Torino for 1850-1865. I have run into a numbers of issues. Please help.

1. Would "Giovanni Battista" (as the child on an atto) be the same person years later as "Battista" (the father on an atto)? That is, did men use both names, or Gio, or Battista more commonly? This is an extremely common name in this family/town/era.

Reply: no in all acts the first names are very precise, but is possible some short shape, for exemple: Giovanni Battista= Gio Battista or Giobatta or Gio Batta.

2. How common were hyphenated last names? I have seem several of them, such as Conterio-Bodiet or Vallino-Navetta. Is this a second name or something else?Reply: Conterio-Bodiet or Vallino-Navetta: in this case, most probable, this means that is another family branche... or of persons of same surname of act's town but coming from another town, but resident in act's town

3. In the Padrino entry especially, I am seeing entries such as "=bot" or "=prot". What does this mean?Reply: here you can read the right abbreviation spell

4. In an Atto, if the chils's name is listed as "N.N.", does this mean no name? I have seen this a couple times and I believe there were no godparents either time as well.

saestes wrote:I am attempting to locate my g-g grandparents, Conterio and Vallino by searching and summarizing birth records in Locana, near Torino for 1850-1865. I have run into a numbers of issues. Please help.

1. Would "Giovanni Battista" (as the child on an atto) be the same person years later as "Battista" (the father on an atto)? That is, did men use both names, or Gio, or Battista more commonly? This is an extremely common name in this family/town/era.

2. How common were hyphenated last names? I have seem several of them, such as Conterio-Bodiet or Vallino-Navetta. Is this a second name or something else?

3. In the Padrino entry especially, I am seeing entries such as "=bot" or "=prot". What does this mean?

4. In an Atto, if the chils's name is listed as "N.N.", does this mean no name? I have seen this a couple times and I believe there were no godparents either time as well.

Grazie,Stew

HI Saestes.

Just a short preamble: in the second half of XIX century, Locana had a population of about 4.000 people, half of them living in Ã¢â‚¬Å“downtownÃ¢â‚¬Â